Watson v. O'Neill’s Empirical Analysis
365 F.3d 609 · 2004
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Moses.com Securities, Inc. v. Comprehensive Software Systems, Inc. (2005), Tyler v. University of Arkansas Board of Trustees (2011)
26 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Brown v. General Services Administration · Kiel v. Select Artificials, Inc. · United States v. Darden · Williams v. Little Rock Municipal Water Works · Jasperson v. Purolator Courier Corp.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We review evidentiary rulings made at trial by a district court for an abuse of discretion, according such decisions `substantial deference.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Absent a proper offer of proof, we review under the plain-error standard and reverse only if there has been a miscarriage of justice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Allegations of error not accompanied by convincing argument and citation to authority need not be addressed on appeal”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.